Jeni Tennison wrote:
>....
> So can you describe more formally what you class as a hypertext
> reference as opposed to a URI that is not a hypertext reference?
>
> I guess that I've been assuming that any URI that points to a resource
> that should be retrieved/accessed/navigated to (as opposed to one that
> is being used as an identifier or as a base URI for example)
> represents a hyperlink.
I strongly agree with this definition. It is fairly concrete and solves
a real problem in Web architecture wherein it is hard for
vocabulary-agnostic processors to know what types of URIS are worth
following.
Paul Prescod